DPR Agrees To Form A Panja Revision Of The Election Law In The Next 5 Years

Illustration of the 2024 Election (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Commission II of the DPR has agreed to form a working committee (perja) for the revision of the Election Law in order to create a better electoral system in the future. This is one of the points of the DPR's (RDP) hearing with the KPU, Minister of Home Affairs, Bawaslu, Honorary Council for Election Organizers (DKPP) regarding the evaluation of the 2024 General Election in the DPR Commission II meeting room, DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, May 16.

"We'll just form a panja, we'll start from the panja. This performance will take an inventory of everything that was conveyed by the father and mother (member of Commission II of the DPR) said, this will be the initial material if one day during this session or the next, revision of the law or improvement of the electoral system," said Chairman of Commission II of the DPR Ahmad Doli Kurnia.

According to Doli, the DPR for this period still has time to work at the Working Committee for the revision of the Election Law. For this reason, Doli hopes that the participation of all members of Commission II for the 2019-2024 period will improve the electoral system in Indonesia.

"So we all have to get involved. Hopefully this will be the beginning for us to look to the future, in the next 5 or 10 years with more perfect elections," said Doli.

On that occasion, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian said the government agreed that the Election Law would be revised immediately so that in the future it would run better. In fact, said Tito, the electoral system needs to be changed because there is an option for the timing of the presidential and legislative elections to be separated in the next election.

"We agree that we need to redesign our electoral system, at the central or regional level, maybe even one of the options, if there is a separation of the presidential election with the legislative election," said Tito.

Tito said that the electoral design also needed to be changed. He gave an example, national elections are separated from elections at the regional level. "Why is this legislative election equalized by the provincial, district/city DPRDs, the regional elections are different. Why don't the national simultaneous with the national, regional and provincial elections? Because they are partners. This is a different time between partners who take part in the February 14 regime, the elections follow the November 27 regime," concluded Tito.